Health tracking apps and devices offer consumers the ability to track an increasing number of relevant metrics. Over the years a number of the companies behind them, especially the ones with larger user bases, have released their own insights based on interesting correlations in the data sets they’ve collected.
For example, just last week, Runkeeper Director of Marketing tweeted a link to a post titled “Android runners are male, Russian, goal-setting night owls.” But these sorts of data inights stories have been a staple for many years now.
In fact, Jawbone released so many data stories about its users in the last year that the companypublished a list of their favorite ones from 2105. In one post, on sleep, Jawbone reported that women sleep, on average, 20 minutes more than men. And in another, the company said people who commute to work sleep less than those who don’t.
MobiHealthNews compiled a list of data stories from half a dozen companies that have shared insights gleaned from their aggregate user data. Starting with a few from Jawbone:
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Jawbone
Happiness: People who get between 8 and 9.5 hours of sleep are happier than those who slept less or more than that. Jawbone also found the more steps people took one day, the better mood they recorded the next morning.
India: The average sleep time in India is about 6.5 hours. The city in that country that gets the most sleep is Goa, but this is also the city that clocks the most steps and stays up the latest.
Heart health: The resting heart rate for men is 3.4 beats lower on average than for females. Additionally, Jawbone users with a lower BMI have a lower resting heart rate. And users that track more steps also have a lower resting heart rate.
Mood, energy, and schedule: Users who work out in the morning had more a consistent workout schedule. And while those who work out more often are happier, people are generally more happy on the day they work out.
Runkeeper
Android: Runkeeper’s Android community is most likely to go for runs between 5 pm and 6 pm and 16 percent more likely to work out go for a run between 5 pm and midnight than Runkeeper’s iOS users were. This community is also 4 percent more likely to set goals in the app and 66 percent more likely to make walks their primary workout mode vs iOS users.
Lose It!
Date: January 29, 2016